I love "knows me by name," that really brings in the relationship and the metaphor is stark and poignant...mention of forty days and forty nights...this is a perfect poem for the lent season. Great work, thank you so much for sharing with Transforming Friday!!

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Poetry Jam

imaginary gardens with real toads

C'est moi

Secret No More

...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save." — Mary Oliver